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| Sergeant Herbert Howard LLOYD-PRYCE (1382989) | |
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12 Squadron Royal Air Force Date of birth: 30th May 1916 Date of death: 14th September 1942 Killed in action aged 26 Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial Panel 75 |
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| Herbert Howard Lloyd-Pryce was born at Havant in Hampshire on the 30th of May 1916 the son of Howard Lloyd-Pryce CMG, High Commissioner in the Colonial Service, and Vivienne (nee Bartlett) Lloyd-Pryce later of "Tiranoque", The Towns, Hayle in Cornwall. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Heads House from May 1930 to July 1934. He was a member of the Tennis, Boxing and the Athletics Teams in 1934, where he ran the 220 yards and the quarter mile. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps where he achieved Certificate A. On the 16th of March 1936 he joined the Metropolitan Police as Police Constable 124836 and served with R Division at Blackheath Section House, Catherine Grove London SE10. On the 14th of September 1942 Bomber Command despatched 200 aircraft of 5 different types for a raid on Wilhelmshaven. The pathfinder marking was accurate and the target suffered its heaviest damage to that point in the war. Herbert Lloyd-Price and his crew took off from RAF Binbrook at 8.03pm in Wellington Mk II Z8505 PH-F for the operation. The aircraft is thought to have been shot down by a night fighter, piloted by Unteroffizier Heinz Vinke of 5./NJG 2, one of an eventual fifty four victories before he was killed in action on the 28th of February 1944. The crew was:- Sergeant Herbert Howard Lloyd-Pryce (Pilot) Flight Sergeant Alfred Thomas James Barnicott Sergeant James Walter Gunning Sergeant Clifford Owen Howard Flight Sergeant William Francis Keatley Theirs was one of three aircraft lost that night. |
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